Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trade balance-the U. S., Italy, Japan, Sweden and others-were ordered to procure special permits in order to bring in goods, effective January 1. The theory was that total value of permits would not be allowed to exceed the total value of Argentine exports to those countries. The catch has been that no permits for imports of U. S. automobiles, foodstuffs, tobacco, sporting goods, toys, etc. have been issued by the Government. General Motors Corp., for instance, with only a three months' supply of cars on hand in the Argentine, has quit advertising its product...
...promoting Anglo-American relations. It is furthermore possible that other schools will follow Harvard's lead. The Refugee Plan, conceived and delivered at Harvard, has since grown into a lusty child supported by a number of eastern colleges. There is just as much reason that this plan should catch the fancy of other undergraduates...
...instance, if you're coming down a hill and your skis catch on the snow, when you go to turn you will be off balance. The ski that slides the easiest will turn the easiest...
...matter of fact, if the skis aren't waxed, they are going to catch so much that the skier won't be able to do anything correctly," he said...
Adding a new catch-word to his growing collection, Mr. Lippmann fixed on the President's references to religion as being the casiest to distort. With a skill derived from experience, he took Mr. Roosevelt's concept of devout, pious, moral religion and deliberately confused it with the medieval dogma of temporal churches. And out of this tortured thinking he drew a religion of his own making, "mysticism" as practised by the Oxford Group, passive, ennervating, a religion that would do away with such Marxian innovations as strikes, wage increase demands and the class struggle in general. Labelling this...